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    Pamphlet Cost Paid By Public

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    Article revealing that Mississippi Welfare Commissioner Fred Ross used public funds to print and distribute copies of his speech titled Racial Amalgamation Versus Segregation and Racial Coperation [sic], which contends, among other things, that Mississippi schools would be more likely to close down altogether than to permit integration; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1096/thumbnail.jp

    Shooting Suspect Will Go On Trial

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    Article about a white man in Canton, Miss., accused of shooting a group of five African Americans; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown datehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1299/thumbnail.jp

    Secret Killings Claimed In State

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    Article about civil rights activist Robert Moses\u27s request for a federal investigation into racially-motivated violence in Natchez, Miss., after local authorities failed to act; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1263/thumbnail.jp

    Ouster of Silver May Be Tried

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    Report of the plan to try to fire James Silver; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1190/thumbnail.jp

    Decision Favors Council

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    A federal judge in Biloxi, Miss., ruled against deposing five Citizens Council members as part of an investigation by a Jackson attorney; Source: unknown; Unknown datehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1136/thumbnail.jp

    Barnett maintains UM segregated

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    Article detailing Governor Ross Barnett\u27s insistence on preventing an African-American student from enrolling at the University of Mississippi law school the year after James Meredith integrated the university; Source: unknownhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1110/thumbnail.jp

    Bunche Blasts Barnett

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    United Nations Undersecretary Ralph Bunche criticizes Governor Ross Barnett in a speech at Tougaloo College, saying that his actions have tarnished the international reputation of the United States; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1065/thumbnail.jp

    Law Professor Quits Ole Miss

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    Article on University of Mississippi law professor William P. Murphy\u27s resignation, resulting from years of harassment about Murphy\u27s political views and membership in the American Civil Liberties Union; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1341/thumbnail.jp

    Lawmaker Cautioned Of Student

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    Article about efforts to keep a University of Mississippi student suspected of being an NAACP member being elected editor of the student newspaper; Source: unknown; Unknown datehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1285/thumbnail.jp

    Labor Leader Hits Barnett Plant Visit

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    Article describing Mississippi Labor Council president Claude Ramsay\u27s skepticism about Governor Ross Barnett\u27s visit to the Storkline Corporation in Jackson; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_clip/1321/thumbnail.jp
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